Devon Rigs Group Sites Table
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DEVON RIGS GROUP SITES EAST DEVON DISTRICT and EAST DEVON AONB Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code North Hill Broadhembury ST096063 Hillside track along Upper Greensand scarp ST00NE2 Tolcis Quarry Axminster ST280009 Quarry with section in Lower Lias mudstones and limestones ST20SE1 Hutchins Pit Widworthy ST212003 Chalk resting on Wilmington Sands ST20SW1 Sections in anomalously thick river gravels containing eolian ogical Railway Pit, Hawkchurch Hawkchurch ST326020 ST30SW1 artefacts Estuary cliffs of Exe Breccia. Best displayed section of Permian Breccia Estuary Cliffs, Lympstone Lympstone SX988837 SX98SE2 lithology in East Devon. A good exposure of the mudstone facies of the Exmouth Sandstone and Estuary Cliffs, Sowden Lympstone SX991834 SX98SE3 Mudstone which is seldom seen inland Lake Bridge Brampford Speke SX927978 Type area for Brampford Speke Sandstone SX99NW1 Quarry with Dawlish sandstone and an excellent display of sand dune Sandpit Clyst St.Mary Sowton SX975909 SX99SE1 cross bedding Anchoring Hill Road Cutting Otterton SY088860 Sunken-lane roadside cutting of Otter sandstone. SY08NE1 Exposed deflation surface marking the junction of Budleigh Salterton Uphams Plantation Bicton SY041866 SY0W1 Pebble Beds and Otter Sandstone, with ventifacts A good exposure of Otter Sandstone showing typical sedimentary Dark Lane Budleigh Salterton SY056823 SY08SE1 features as well as eolian sandstone at the base The Maer Exmouth SY008801 Exmouth Mudstone and Sandstone Formation SY08SW1 A good example of the junction between Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beggar Roost Quarry Rockbeare SY062941 SY09SE1 Beds and Otter Sandstone, with ventifacts Quarry with clean exposure of the calcareous faces of the Upper Dunscombe Manor Quarry Sidmouth SY160887 SY18NE1 Greensand Site showing the relationship between Middle Chalk and Upper Hole Pits Branscombe SY191890 SY18NE2 Greensand Peak Hill & Mutters Moor Sidmouth/Otterton SY105880 Open pasture & forestry with Peak Hill gravel and Mutters Moor gravel SY18NW1 Rolling Stone Sidmouth SY146961 A sarsen monolith thought to have been a Neolithic way-marker SY19NW1 Higher Sweetcombe Wood Sidmouth SY163929 Thick, well exposed section of Loess SY19SE1 Hazelwood Roadside Branscombe SY205892 Quarried roadside exposure of Upper Greensand SY28NW1 Exposure Great Knowle Branscombe SY204893 Strike section of Upper Greensand Chert Beds SY28NW2 An excellent exposure of the terrace gravels of the River Axe, with the Kilmington Gravel Pit Kilmington SY275977 SY29NE1 characteristic exotic pebbles 1/12 EXETER Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Pocombe Quarry (Exonia Exeter SX899913 Quarry with good exposure of Permian trachybasalt SX89SE1 Park) Ferry Road Exeter SX964883 River cliff exposure of Permian Dawlish sandstone SX98NE1 Pinhoe Brickpit Exeter SX954945 Quarry with best exposure of shaly Crackington Formation in Devon. SX99SE2 SX963915 & An excellent display of the large scale dune cross-bedding characteristic Bishops Court Quarry Exeter SX99SE3 SX965915 of the Dawlish Sandstone Heavitree Quarry Exeter SX949921 Quarry with good exposure of Heavitree Breccia SX99SW1 Asymmetric valley and steep headed dry valleys of probably Pleistocene Ludwell Valley Park Exeter SX945911 SX99SW2 age Exposures of terrace deposits indicating the former height extent of the SX940905 & Topsham Road Exeter Exe Estuary during the Pleistocene, together with exposures of the SX99SW3 SX941905 Permian Heavitree Breccia Hamlin Lane – Whipton SX944930 & Exeter Alphington Breccia, Upper Permian SX99SW4 Playing Fields SX946929 SX911940 & Cowley Bridge Road Exeter Roadside cutting with Upper Carboniferous Crackington Formation SX99SW5 SX911941 MID DEVON DISTRICT Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Knowle Quarry, Crediton Crediton Hamlets SS789022 Quarry with exposures of Permian volcanic lava SS70SE1 Hayne Quarry Zeal Monachorum SS714032 Quarry with exposure of Upper Carboniferous Bude formation SS70SW1 Chapel Downs Road Crediton SS820005 Road cutting with exposure of Crediton Breccia SS80SW1 Cutting Exposure of Newton St.Cyres Breccia on the sides of a deeply sunken Pit Hill Road Cutting Crediton Hamlets SS817002 SS80SW2 lane Blackborough Common Kentisbeare/Uffculme ST096090 Scarp hillside covered in bracken & woodland ST00NE1 Uton Quarry Crediton Hamlets SX823985 Quarry with volcanic lava resting on soft reddish Knowle sandstone SX89NW1 2/12 NORTH DEVON and NORTH DEVON AONB Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Windy Cove, Morte Point Mortehoe SS445454 Morte Slates with good examples of bedding cleavage SS44NW1 Devonian Pickwell Down Sandstone with folding, faulting & other Vyse Quarry Mortehoe SS490411 SS44SE1 structural features Good example of the more continental sediments of the Pickwell Down Putsborough Sands Georgeham SS448411 SS44SW1 Sandstones Type locality of the Carboniferous Codden Hill Chert. With structural Codden Hill Quarry Bishop’s Tawton SS569297 SS52NE1 features including faulting Lake Hamlet Road Cutting Tawstock SS555317 Pleistocene pebbly Boulder Clay/Outwash Gravel glacial deposits. SS53SE1 Watermouth Berrynarbor SS555483 Lester Slates-and-Sandstones SS54NE1 Devonian & calcareous slate & crinoidal limestone with structural Hele Quarry Ilfracombe SS533480 SS54NW1 features Rapparee Grove Ilfracombe SS528477 Slates and sandstones of the Kintisbury Slates SS54NW2 Hele Bay Ilfracombe SS535480 Limestones and slates of the Coombe Martin Slates SS54NW3 Tunnel Beach Ilfracombe SS513477 Good exposures of the lithology of part of the Kintisbury Slate SS54NW4 Bittadon ‘Felsite’ Quarry, Type locality for the Devonian feldspathic tuff marking the base of the Bittadon SS550408 SS54SE1 Bittadon Pickwell Down Sandstone Bittadon ‘Felsite’ Quarry, Devonian feldspathic tuff marking the base of the Pickwell Down East Down SS597400 SS54SE2 Arlington Sandstone PLYMOUTH Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Bluff battery Plymouth SX459543 Quarried outcrops with rich fossil fauna SX45SE1 Laira Battery Quarry Plymouth SX513562 Quarry with good exposure of Weard Sandstone SX55NW1 Mainstone Quarry Plymouth SX521587 Quarry with a Dolerite/gabbero sill SX55NW2 Bickleigh Vale Quarries Plymouth SX521594 Quarries & cuttings exposing an Elvan dyke. SX55NW3 Dorsmouth Rock & Quarry Plymouth SX538557 Pasture field with a natural outcrop and a small quarry. Upper Devonian SX55NW4 pillow lava Pomphlett Mill Quarry Plymouth SX507538 Middle Devonian Limestone, with fossils typical of the Plymouth SX55SW4 Limestone 3/12 SOUTH HAMS and SOUTH DEVON AONB Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Wembury Point Wembury SX498484 Coastline, cliffs and foreshore SX54NW1 St Anchorite’s Rock Holbeton SX591472 Cliff top tor & quarry, with basic igneous intrusion into Meadfoot Beds SX54NE1 Hemerdon Open Pit Sparkwell SX572584 Open-pit mine working, with Dartmoor Granite exposures SX55NE1 Tower’s Wood Tramway Sparkwell SX526587 Disused tramway cutting of Upper Devonian slate intruded by a dolerite sill SX55NW2 Cutting Elvan dyke, intruding the slate, with granite fragments showing it post dates Cann Quarry Sparkwell SX524596 SX55NW5 the Dartmoor Granite Lee Mill Sparkwell SX581555 Roadside cutting of Middle Devonian slate With fossils SX55NE2 Plympton St.Maurice A38 Roadside cutting with exposure of a fault and exposure of Upper Devonian Brixton SX545551 SX55NE3 Underpass slates Venn (Brixton) Quarry Brixton SX558524 Quarry with a good display of Devonian corals & stromatoporoids SX55SE1 New England Quarry Yealmpton SX595545 Quarry with Gabbo intrusion into Middle Devonian Slate SX55SE5 Excellent section through a calcareous variant of Middle Devonian slate with Chittleburn Railway Cutting Brixton SX541526 SX55SW1 some tuffaceous beds Quarry used for brick making. Variations in the state of oxidation and iron Steer Point Brixton SX544507 SX55SW2 content. Spriddlestone Quarry Brixton SX540514 Quarry showing the second phase of Variscan folding in Devonian rocks. SX55SW3 Eastern Torrs (Elliot’s) Yealmpton SX587519 Middle Devonian limestone, with good evidence of structural relationships SX55SE2 Quarry Rounds Nest Quarry Yealmpton SX578514 Quarry of middle Devonian limestone and dolomite. Caves and a lime kiln. SX55SE3 Yealmbridge Quarry Yealmpton SX591518 Middle Devonian limestone with fold structures & deformation SX55SE4 SX534631 & Shaugh Iron Mine Shaugh Prior Unique in situ exposure of a limestone gossan lode & intrusive breccia SX56SW1 SX532632 Tor Rock Kingston SX636488 Natural tor outcrop of pinkish, acid igneous rock SX64NW1 Pipers Cross Quarry Kingston SX637488 Quarry of slate from Dartmouth group and igneous rock resembling rhyolite SX64NW2 North Efford, Avon Estuary Aveton Gifford SX686470 Estuary cliffs SX64NE1 Horsewell House Quarry South Milton SX688421 A good example of Permian xposure & Devonian slates SX64SE1 The Shippen South Huish SX675401 The only good exposure of the Start boundary fault SX64SE2 South Thurlestone Sand Milton/South SX676416 Holocene barred valleys & deposits, sand dunes & coastal erosion SX64SE3 Huish Waterloo Quarry Ermington SX641537 Quarry of Dolerite with veins of Epidote & Tremolite SX65SW1 North Sands Salcombe SX731381 Many of the features of the rocks & structures of the Start Complex SX73NW1 Rake Railway Cutting Churchstow SX722478 Railway cutting SX74NW1 Hazard Quarry Harberton SX754591 Limestone quarry with caves. SX75NE1 4/12 SX773563 & Englebourne Quarry Harberton Small quarries with Middle Devonian slate & valuable fossil fauna SX75NE2 SX772564 An unusual & interesting